The american dream is dead....(?)

[Spider]

[Aaron]

[Winchester]

[exploited]

So does the fact that $100 used to actually get you shit. Now it gets you a couple bags of groceries and maybe a bit of gas.

[Indy]

What I find interesting is that for a long while there, rich people were taxed a LOT and--ta-da!--they were still rich and our economy was booming. Also: the gov't wasn't lacking in funds because when you tax those with the most wealth, duh, you end up with more money.

Somewhere along the line we decided that not only should they be paying way less--even less than blue-collar workers. And this was all built on the illusion of what was previously called "trickle down" but what is now called allegedly "job creation," yet which creates no jobs. Not only do they not create jobs they move that money out of the country... and sit on it.

That's what's so bizarre: we decided that it's best if we let the upper 10% suck up the majority of the wealth, take it OUT of the economy and sit on it.

They certainly spend when it comes to buying our gov't though.

[Winchester]

[The Comrade]

[Winchester]

[The Comrade]

one time debt forgiveness followed by some method of cost control is going to have to be a thing in the next 20-30 years. student loan debt is already over a trillion dollars and growing and i just don't see how that astronomical sum is ever getting paid back.

[eynon81]